Word: veils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cowboy appears as a Negro dressed entirely in white-that is to say, as a union of opposites, as a completeness possible perhaps only in God. He comes moreover as a redeemer. One by one as through the veil of a sanctuary, he leads the junkies through a door marked TOILET. One by one he injects them with an elixir that washes away their wretchedness, that raises them from the living dead, that transports them to "existence on another plane...
...Veil the Starkness. Tapestry's new renaissance comes partly from a curiosity on the part of artists for new techniques, a new appreciation on the part of the public for textures and bold colors. But architecture, tapestry's first muse, seems to be most responsible. Says Jean Lurgat, 70, chairman of the International Tapestry Center and leader of the new movement in weaving: ''The modern world needs these large ornamental tapestries, these colorful hangings, to veil, and at the same time to enrich, the sometimes exaggerated starkness of bare walls in contemporary architecture.'' Lurgat...
...that all Greek figures were shown consciously inhaling rather than exhaling. After painting the murals for International House at Columbia University in 1924. he suffered a heart attack, went alone to Europe to recuperate. While painting in Florence in 1928, he died. So deeply had he drawn the veil of mystery over his last years that his wife had difficulty in locating his body...
...veil came off with the parley's first agreement on a specific hurdle: Britain proposed to abandon Commonwealth preferential tariffs on a list of 400 manufactured goods it normally imports from Canada, New Zealand and Australia. In a mild spirit of compromise, the Europeans agreed to apply the tariff cuts in slow stages, postpone the final cutoff date until 1970. So far as the Common Market Six were concerned, it was a small first step, but experts now detected a new suppleness in the hitherto stiff French position. Delighted at the way things were going, Ted Heath tentatively declared...
...overhead shot of a biscuit warmer full of escargots seems a trifle arty, but the snails, piled high in a veil of heavenly vapor, look utterly royal. It dishonors them to say that the picture as a whole creeps at a snail's pace- but that, in a shell, is what happens...